Mouthpiece



March 5, mm A. PAULSON 1,704,147

MOUTHPIECE Filed April 4, 1927 Patented Mar. 5, 1929.

UNITED STATES AUGUST PAULSON, 6F

L-EY, CALIFOE MOUTHPIECE.

Application filed April 4,

The device forming the subject matter of this application is a mouth piece for wind instruments of the lute type, and one object of this invention is to provide a mouth piece which will absorb tie moisture in the breath of tl e performer, it being a matter of common knowlc go that players on instruments of the sort mentioned often have occasion to pull off the head join t. and blow the moisture out of it, to the end that the tone of the instrument may not be impaired.

Another object of the invention is to provide novel means for mounting the mouth piece so that it can be shifted at the will of an operator, with respect to the biow-hole, thereby to change the direction of the current of air, as is necessary, for instance, when the music shifts from the first octave to the sec ond or third octave.

another object of the invention is to provide a flexible member for disposition at the blow-hole of the instrument, to reproduce, closely, the results obtained by the flexible human lip, the said member being under the control of the tiltable mouth piece, and constituting, also, a spring means whereby the mouth piece is returned to an initial position.

The invention aims. moreover, not only to carry out the aforesaid results broadly, but to provide, specifically, a novel mechanism whereby the aforesaid improvements may be put. into practice.

It is within the INOJlDCQ of the disclosure to improve generally and to enhance the utility oi dev' s of that. type to which the invention appertains.

l Vith the above and other objects in view which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combina 'tion and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed, may be made within the scope of What is claimed, without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the drawings Figure 1 shows in plan, a device constructed in accordance with the invention, mounted on an instrument;

Figure 2 is any enlarged elevation, showing a device constructed in accordance with the invention, mounted on a portion of a wood wind instrument;

Figure 3 is a section on the line 33 of 7 F1 gure 2 5 1927. Serial 130. 180,65

Figure 4!; is an elevation showing the sup port whereunto the mouth piece is pivotally connected.

Figure 5 a plan of the mouth piece;

Figure 6 is a side elevation of the mouth piece;

il iguro 7 is a cross section on the line 7-7 p re 8 an elevation showing the inner end of the mouth piece and attendant parts;

F' ire 9 is a cross section on the line 9-9 of Figure In carrying out the invention, there is proided a mouth piece 1 including a fictile abbent body 2 made out of any preferred rial, such as plaster of Paris, or a plas ter of Paris con'ipoi'lnd. The body 2 has a longitudinal passage 3 through which air s when the instrument 12 is blown. rably, but not of necessity, the body 2 is enclosed within a metal casing 4 provided near to its inner end with a depending U- shaped yoke 5. Between the yoke 5 and the inner end of the casing 4, the casing is supplied with laterally outstanding ears 6 provided at their inner ends with hinge knuckles. Across the bottom of the 41, and, if desired, secured to the bottom of the casing, is extended a reinforcing and abutment strip 8 provided with a depending flange 80. The strip 8 is called a reinforcing strip, because its ends are formed into hooks 9 that extend about the e G and strengthens them.

The device includes a SllppOl't 10 which may be a. metal. plate, provided with inner arms 11 and with outer arms H. The support 10 re s against the instrument 12, and is held thereon by metal bands 16 which pass around the instrument. 12 and botwcmr the arms 11 and 14-. of the support 10, the ends of each band 16 being connected by draw bolts 17. The arms 11 and 1-1 are provided at their ends with knuckles 15. The mouth piece 1 is so placed that its knuckles 7 are disposed between the knuckles of the inner arms 11 of the support 10, as shown in Figure 2. Headed pivot. elements 18, are mount ed in the knuckles 15 of the arms 14 and 11 on the support, and the inner ends of the pivot elements 18 are received in the knuckles 7 of the mouth piece 1. The mouth piece, thus, is mounted for swinging movement in a direction at right angles to the axis of the fife or other like instrument shown at 12.

The support 10 is provided intermediate its ends with a reduced part 19 Which is closely, the r s n produced folded on itseli as at 20, to form an outer veil 21 having a projecting ledge 2:2. The Well 21 has icetrworclly extended flanges 23 carrying a, pivot ZIIGHibGI on which is mounted a shackle 25 which is detechehl engaged with the yoke 5. A spring engaged around the pivot member spring 26 bearing against the Well support 10 and against the lower Po the hook-shaped Th to the spring 25 to hold the shackle position delineated in Figure 3, and in engegenient with the yo te A piece ot ifuhher 27, or other flexible moi; of, is :i ohled. upon itself, is shown in Pi ot-e The lower edge of th. v' ent member 2? rec i 22 of the support 10,

its on the l and bliQ- upper p or th *Qr 2? is located in front oi" ti hen 1e relation to the lower inne piece 1, as shown in Figure The member 27 extends partway across the blow-hole 28 01" the fife or other instrument 12.

The mouth piece 1 may reetion at right angles to ti strunient 1,

roceeding thro' o the hiowho Lu a result is obtained, which blown directly l'roin the the interposition of a mo is improved, moreover, l

i in; as it flows on" the on ineinoe" 27. C ineinher QZbeing p-roc very much the said ,fi'ect as at brought about when the lower lip of p is placed ageinst the "instrument W- hole 28 As thmonth piece 1 is at 4 cs to the nxis of the ins art o or p rll 'llt'fl'il by the shecl'le 25 1 with the yoke The spring- 26 holds the shscozle engaqerl v. it i l the o rotor can swing the opei" tor desires mo ing movement in the 11m sha'lde will allow. diseig 'ed fronl it is d to rel no ient nioi; her J? or to shift the position there-oi.

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